I miss her bros

dammit Yea Forumsros it's not fair
why can't we just get hl3 hlaf life was my fucking childhoof

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More like Cervyx Vance amirite

>it's been 12 years

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FERNS

I FUCKING HATE YOU GABE, RELEASE LITERALLY ANYTHING ON SOURCE 2 ALEEADY

Honestly with all this epic games shit, Hl3 is more possible than ever.

imagine if HL3 was a multiplayer TF2 clone

ME3's is just half-assed.
Gordon achieving everything they wanted to accomplish, but then being forced to realize that this is an interdimensional empire and whatever the fuck humanity could muster wasn't going to be worth shit is almost classically Lovecraftian and true to the spirit of the original Half-Life, replacing the power fantasies of Doom with an average scientist fighting for survival.
G-Man takes away Alyx, Gordon is saved by the Vortigaunts then placed back on Earth well after the Earth war with the Combine ended in one way or another. Everything is wrapped up in regards to the Half-Life 1/2 story but there's still stuff for somebody to pick up the torch for a Half-Life 3 and carve their own story.

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Can you elaborate more about this?

Marc Laidlaw said if he thought Episode 3/HL3 would never come out he'd just go ahead and reveal the plot. Then later he released "Epistle 3" which is written as a letter from Gordon Freeman to the player with every character being genderswapped.
>Dr. Breen is revealed to be in a Combine Advisor body and begs Gordon to kill him
>Alyx Vance kills Judith Mossman for trying to go against Eli's wishes that they destroy the Borealis to prevent the Combine from harvesting its technology
>the surviving heroes agree to use it as a kamikaze boat on the combine homeworld
>the Borealis on its way to the combine homeworld begins jumping through time and space including occasional stops in the Seven Hour War
>as they reach their destination, Gman shows up, takes Alyx Vance
>Gordon arrives and bears witness to a massive Combine dyson sphere, and the Borealis is nothing to it, basically the equivalent of a mosquito taking on a tank
>the vortigaunts save Gordon before the ship explodes, and drop him back on Earth in a place and time unknown

last moments of ep3 would have had gordon on the borealis drifting through space surrounded by the combine home world
the borealis was teleported there as a last ditch effort to destroy the technology so the combine wouldnt be able to use it and to wipe out them as a whole detonating the boralis
what gordon sees helps him realize how insignificant the damage would be to them

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Yep thats why epic is trying to undercut steams business so theyre forced to bring out the big guns. Half life 3.

here's your hl3 bro

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i still dont know what this is or why it was such a big deal
is it a mod? why was it so popular?

YOU

$25 mod

Imagine if Full Life Consequences was made into a game.
It's basically the equivalent of bad deviantArt fanart made into a game. Like if you replaced the silent HL protags with a Sonic OC. It's amateurishly designed, with a hamhanded attempt at being serious. It doesn't help that the quality of the models is all over the fucking place so it literally looks like the 3D equivalent of making a sprite comic out of poorly edited sprites and also just copying and pasting panels out of Tails Got Trolled.
But it also costs money in spite of being edgy Half-Life fanfiction, and it was allowed to be sold on Steam. That's part of what's so infamous about it.

Imagine if somebody made an edgy Mario porn game and Nintendo let it onto the Switch's eShop without any issues or confrontation or even consultation about being allowed to use Mario as such. That's basically what Hunt Down the Freeman was.

This wouldve been kino as fuck. The question left after the ending is does Gordon keep going or just give up after that? Then you're left wondering where the fuck alyx and gman are. Why wouldn't they just fucking make it Bros?

>Abs
I wish I could get a gf with those, shame you can only meet those at the gym because I'll never enter one.

Hot chicks are overrated. Same with ugly ones. Rise above that bullshit, focus on science and make a Dyson sphere.

Laidlaw's intention was for his successor to get a blank slate for Half-Life 3. That's why Epistle 3 ends with Gordon being dumped back on Earth with no indication of if he even came back to the same time as he left, if humanity liberated Earth from the Combine, or if other members of the Resistance like Kleiner or Barney are still alive or have died from violent means or just old age.
Whoever comes next will have the option of starting right where they left off, or going with a brand new story.

Although presumably Earth is still okay since Portal 2 ends with Chell being released into a grainfield, which couldn't work if the Combine stole all the fucking water.

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And then getting deus ex machina'd by the Vorts again
So creative

>Gman cockblocks Gordon
more like clam jams Alyx's thirsty ass but still

Dick move you creepy faggot

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There's also how Portal 2's map creator set up a universe where Cave bought Black Mesa and stopped them from fucking everything up in the first place.

>Cave Johnson straight up hard-counters Gman through oblivious indignation

That spoiler reminds me of the sinister line when GlaDOS is blowing up at the end of Portal, being the only real hint ingame that Portal 1 takes place in the Half-Life universe other than the assets.
youtube.com/watch?v=4CdoufQu1ko&t=5m21s
>Are you trying to escape? [chuckle] Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What's going on out there will make you wish you were back in here. I have an infinite capacity for knowledge, and even I'm not sure what's going on outside. All I know is I'm the only thing standing between us and them. Well, I was.

There's also the projectors showing Aperture vs Black Mesa plus the whole Borealis shit.

can you imagine if aperture showed up in hl3 like it tied in somehow
would be neat

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Did you not play Episode 2? Aperture had the one piece of tech the Combine couldn't figure out.

shower curtains?

No, mantis men.

Valve missed their mark with HL3. There's not any "massive" technological advances they can ride on with a new game that would hype up their fanbase immensely like the other games.

And don't say "hurrr HL VR" because you're an autistic retard and don't understand that VR is not and will never be a household commodity, at least for the next decade or so.

>Cave literally saved earth in one timeline due to pure ego strokes
I can only have respect for a man this far up his ass.

It wasn't pure ego, he knew Black Mesa was gonna fuck up as soon as he found out what their engineers were doing.

Always thought it was pretty fucking funny that the Combine managed to conquer the entire universe yet never managed to achive portal tech yet a fucking shower curtain company who’s science was oriented around throwing shit at walls did.

I actually want to see more of the combine’s space assets like space ships.

Imagine if Cave ends up fucking over the gmail in the main timeline as well?

I must have missed that part.

I just wanted more synths. Crab Synth, Mortar Synth, the Combine Super Soldier(which looked like a SS in a humanoid Strider Mech), etc

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Same line as Brapperture Mesa.
>"Cave Johnson, new owner and CEO of Black Mesa. That's right, you've been bought. First order of business, we're renaming you under the Aperture brand. I'm leaning towards Blappeture Mesa. Marketing boys think something else. So: Blappeture it is. Next, they tell me you people are conducting some anomalous materials research that could result in a resonance cascade. So I'm shutting that down before you idiots end the world. A resonance cascade! You're supposed to be scientists. Use some common sense."

FUCKED

I honestly think thats what they're waiting for. Why tarnish the impact of how hard hitting episode 3 or hl3 would be when you can just wait, sit on the IP, and eventually pair it, and the other long awaited titles you have, with the next technological advancement and make them all look that much better? It's not quick business, but it's smart business.

Especially when you consider how rampant IP fatigue is right now.

Then how would you reset all your passwords?

what good would it do even if they destroyed the combines home world? their and interdimensional empire across countless universes? there's probably like several billion combine "home worlds" seems useless honestly. would probably just tick off combine really hard and they'd actually try to do anything to fuck over earth.

Not just one universe but several universes, they probably have very advance FTL tech but even that would be slow compared to teleportation tech.

I think that's the point. Reality sets in as the game ends that you don't stand a fucking chance.

That's what I was trying to say. It's pretty obvious they're gonna use a new gimmick as a booster to the game's sales.

>HL2 showcases physics
>HL2: EP 1 showcases shaders, phong shading
>HL2: EP 2 showcases enemies, environmental destruction (albeit scripted)

Holy fuck this. More alien stuff

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We really do need to see more synth enemies.

>"Cavina Johnson here. It's come to my attention that one of you has sent a letter to the Supreme Council of Matriarchs accusing me of being a man. So, I want to assure both you and Gender Regulatory Committee that I am indeed one hundred percent all woman. And if you don't believe me, I swear to god I will beat you -- [off mic] What? [on mic] Greg tells -- [off mic] What? [on mic] Sally-Sue-Greg tells me we will all exchange handmade sympathy cards discussing how we feel about the issue. Alright, let's do some lady science!"
Every time I read these lines I find new things to laugh at. Where did Valve go so wrong?

>My work is done here, Dr. Freeman
>Before I, forget, Mr. Calhoun wanted to give you this
>G-Man tosses something to Gordon
>Gordon looks at the object in his hand
>Its a can of beer
>G-Man looks back and cracks a smile
>I owed you, Doc
>Gordon looks back up as G-Man disappears through a portal
>G-Man was Barney from the future the whole time

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"The Combine are invincible gods" doesn't jive well with the way the Combine has already gotten cucked over and over in HL2, by bespectacled physicists AND primitive aliens that talk backwards and shit lightning AND a robot made out of literal garbage AND creepy dimension hopping Christopher Walken (although him being the one person who could actually interfere with them is the most plausible)

Plus HL3 is hype to impossible to meet expectations.

That's the point, there was no overthrowing the evil empire with your scrappy rebellion, not a chance in the multiverse. Your greatest weapon didn't even register on their radar. Best you could hope for was to chase them off earth and hope they forget about you.

The Combine utterly trivialized Earth and let their new buffet/slave colony be managed by another one of their slave races(the giant bean larva Advisors).

What Gordon and the Resistance are doing are fighting the Combine equivalent of mall cops, not their elite force.

Given that the plot of Episode 3 was revealed to us, couldn't a fan group just make it? I mean all that would really change is that it wouldn't have the VA's for the characters but would that bother anyone? And given what Valve did with Black Mesa there's a good chance that it might end up being the only way it even gets made at all,

to be fair though, that's not really the combine. That's basically a skeleton crew of earth's turncoats isn't it? We don't even really know what the ACTUAL combine is or looks like.

The Combine are supposed to be what their name implies, a combination of species that they've conquered. And as they've done so they've adopted the technologies each species has created. So while the Combine have fantastical technology, that doesn't mean they're smart enough to utilize it best or invent new technology; they essentially just kill and take and that's what's worked for them thus far. Therefore it stands to reason that while they have the might, they can also get blindsided in various ways because they're neither omnipotent or omniscient.

The idea being that the TRUE overminds of the Combine view their own troops so disposable and Earth so insignificant that they just fling some lower-level goons that way and turn a blind eye.

>the spirit of the original Half-Life, replacing the power fantasies of Doom with an average scientist fighting for survival.
seriously? A socially awkward mute scientist type saving the world guns blazing isn't a power fantasy?
HL fags need to stop pretending that HL was deep.

MY WIFE~

Coming as a fan, the HL2 fanbase is so autistic that all we'd get is the equivalent to a "Hunt Down The Freeman" sequel.

>half life 2
>half life 2 episode 1
>half life 2 episode 2
why do you want another shit game?

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Essentially all the good Source Engine modders have moved on. Fuck, even the Gmod successor is being made in UE4.

Already happening. It's called Project Borealis. It's a fan game though so it will take forever if it does come out and be HDTF tier.

There's a marked difference between HL1's tone and HL2 literally just being Gordon goes Duke Nukem in Slavland.

I just want to see Alyx's purple underwear in Valve-sanctioned HD. Just once.

Apparently according to Laidlaw, combine is basically a new order of reality and a virus that trying to turn the multiverse into a machine.

Huh, well even then a Virus, while devastating and wide-reaching, can be stopped on occasion.

Speaking of synths, the Hunter is such a fucking cool design. Easily one of my favorite video game enemies.
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>implying zoomers would buy HL3
it's never coming out

HL1 is very much a Duke Nukem like "go to the alien world and kick their evil overlord's ass" power fantasy.

How long has she been wearing those panties? Imagine the smell

TWELVE
YEARS

thats the point. gordon is the only to see how little hope there is, though

>seeing them in motion for the first time
the way they move is just cool to look at
same with striders

Fun fact: the codename for Hunters is ministrider.

You forgot to mention that bunch of youtubers were cast as voice actors.It was terrible. Fucking keemstar was one of them.

>There's still hope for the HL3 r-right?
Abandon hope all ye who meme

Imagine the skidmarks.

if it doesnt happen this year with index then im giving up hope